The latest episode of Xploration Outer Space Online is about high altitude balloons :
Monthly Archives: October 2014
The Space Show this week – Oct.20.14
The guests and the topics on The Space Show this week:
1. Monday, Oct. 20, , 2014: 2-3:30 PM PDT (5-6:30 PM EDT, 4-5:30 PM CDT): We welcome back DR. PAUL SPUDIS to discuss his recent postings on www.spudislunarresources.com/blog and blogs.airspacemag.com/moon.
2. Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2014:,7-8:30 PM PDT (10-11:30 PM EDT, 9-10:30 PM CDT): WAYNE WHITE, space attorney, returns to discuss space property rights and his new proposal for creating them.
3. Friday, Oct. 24, 2014, 9:30 -11 AM PDT (12:30-2 PM EDT; 11:30-1 PM CDT):TBD. We welcome BRIAN ALTMEYER regarding his recent Space Review article, “The Strange Contagion Of a Dream” .
4. Sunday, Oct. 26, 2014, 12-1:30 PM PDT (3-4:30 PM EDT, 2-3:30 PM CDT) We. welcome space attorney MICHAEL LISTNER to the program to discuss the proposed NASA Air Traffic Control System for drones & much more..
See also:
/– The Space Show on Vimeo – webinar videos
/– The Space Show’s Blog – summaries of interviews.
/– The Space Show Classroom Blog – tutorial programs
The Space Show is a project of the One Giant Leap Foundation.
Tom Hanks in The New Yorker – Apollo inspired short story plus an interview
Tom Hanks has written a short story that’s published in The New Yorker magazine: “Alan Bean Plus Four”
He reads it on Soundcloud:
Hanks is also interviewed: This Week in Fiction: Tom Hanks – The New Yorker.
Update on UND 30-day planetary base simulation
I recently mentioned the 3o day simulation of life in a space habitat underway by three grad students at the Univ. of North Dakota Department of Space Studies. Here are a couple of updates via the NDX Space Suit Projects blog:
On Day 8 there was an EVA:
Sci-Tech: More fusion power projects
I recently listed some relatively low cost, near(er) term nuclear fusion power projects, most of which originated at government labs or from government funded research at universities but are now being pursued by private ventures:
- Updates on five fusion power projects – Dynomak, Helion Power, EMC2 Polywell, Lockheed-Martin Compact Fusion, and Sandia’s magnetized fusion.
- LPP focus fusion update – Focus fusion at Lawrenceville Plasma Physics
Brian Wang lists these and two that I left out – General Fusion (backed by Jeff Bezos and others) and Tri-Alpha Energy (back by Paul Allen and others) : Updated Prospects for Commercial Nuclear Fusion – NextBigFuture.com.
Here’s a discussion about the L-M Compact Fusion scheme : Video: Podcast: Could The Fusion Age Be Upon Us? – Aviation Week.